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From: Howard Brazee on 10 Mar 2010 08:22
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:39:49 +0100, "Silvio" <silvio(a)nospam.com>
wrote:

>People keep telling me woods are much easier to get a better result from.
>But apart from a driver with the ball sitting on a tee I have never been
>able to hit any type of wood decently. So the long irons are my friends. If
>I could get my hand on a 0i and perhaps even a -1i I certainly would surely
>give them a try.

I prefer a long iron when I want the ball to roll, but a "rescue" wood
when I prefer the ball to go long and then stop.

I haven't figured out how to use a rescue wood to rescue me though. I
know that Vijay Singh uses one in the deepest native grass, so that
the grass doesn't catch the blade. But he's big and strong and
accurate. When I try, the grass deflects my aim. I'm better off
chopping in that stuff than sweeping. (Or does Vijay chop with a
rescue wood?)

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
From: Lloyd Parsons on 10 Mar 2010 08:36
In article <q07fp518108pgt32mahf3cf37ri5vcdlec(a)4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:39:49 +0100, "Silvio" <silvio(a)nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >People keep telling me woods are much easier to get a better result from.
> >But apart from a driver with the ball sitting on a tee I have never been
> >able to hit any type of wood decently. So the long irons are my friends. If
> >I could get my hand on a 0i and perhaps even a -1i I certainly would surely
> >give them a try.
>
> I prefer a long iron when I want the ball to roll, but a "rescue" wood
> when I prefer the ball to go long and then stop.
>
> I haven't figured out how to use a rescue wood to rescue me though. I
> know that Vijay Singh uses one in the deepest native grass, so that
> the grass doesn't catch the blade. But he's big and strong and
> accurate. When I try, the grass deflects my aim. I'm better off
> chopping in that stuff than sweeping. (Or does Vijay chop with a
> rescue wood?)

I hood the club and chop with the wood in deep grass and it seems to
work most of the time. A very exaggerated chop, I might add.

The only iron-wood I have is a Callaway Heavenwood 3H that I use for low
screamers out from under a tree, or in a very tight lie situation.

I tend away from the irons, especially the longer ones, as I don't
strike them well at all. I keep pondering adding an 11 and 13 wood to
the bag as woods and I get along quite well. Outside of the pesky
driver, of course.

--
Lloyd


From: Frank Ketchum on 10 Mar 2010 10:34

"Howard Brazee" <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote in message
news:q07fp518108pgt32mahf3cf37ri5vcdlec(a)4ax.com...
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:39:49 +0100, "Silvio" <silvio(a)nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>People keep telling me woods are much easier to get a better result from.
>>But apart from a driver with the ball sitting on a tee I have never been
>>able to hit any type of wood decently. So the long irons are my friends.
>>If
>>I could get my hand on a 0i and perhaps even a -1i I certainly would
>>surely
>>give them a try.
>
> I prefer a long iron when I want the ball to roll, but a "rescue" wood
> when I prefer the ball to go long and then stop.
>
> I haven't figured out how to use a rescue wood to rescue me though. I
> know that Vijay Singh uses one in the deepest native grass, so that
> the grass doesn't catch the blade. But he's big and strong and
> accurate. When I try, the grass deflects my aim. I'm better off
> chopping in that stuff than sweeping. (Or does Vijay chop with a
> rescue wood?)

You have to steepen your angle of attack (sometimes a lot) and chop it out.
They work better than irons for this.


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